It was a nasty night time for Tatiana Suarez at UFC 312.
Going into her first shot at UFC gold, the beforehand unbeaten Suarez was favored to come back out on high in her co-main occasion conflict with reigning strawweight queen Zhang Weili. Sadly for Suarez, it wasn’t meant to be. Regardless of her greatest efforts, the Covina, California native surrendered a decisive unanimous resolution victory to ‘Magnum’ after failing to unleash her wrestle-heavy assault all through the five-round affair.
Including insult to harm, Suarez suffered a nasty knee harm throughout a takedown try on the 4:21 mark of the second spherical. Suarez appeared to snag her knee the place the cage meets the canvas, leading to a gory gash opening up.
Tatiana Suarez reveals her stitched up knee following UFC 312
In between rounds, Suarez refused to take a look at the minimize however she may very well be heard asking her nook how dangerous it appeared. Suarez’s workforce did their greatest to guarantee her that it wasn’t severe.
Because it seems, the harm was fairly severe. Not lengthy after releasing her first assertion following her disappointing loss in Australia, she provided followers a have a look at her freshly stitched knee.
Suarez’s loss to Zhang Weili was the primary of her profession, dropping her to 10-1 general and ending her decade-long run as an undefeated fighter.
As for Zhang, the Chinese language celebrity efficiently defended her strawweight title for the third time throughout her present reign. General, it was her sixth profession title battle win within the division, tying her with Joanna Jędrzejczyk for most title battle wins in UFC strawweight division historical past.
After working her approach by means of a lot of the contender’s record at 115, a conflict with reigning flyweight queen Valentina Shevchenko may very well be in Zhang’s future.
